The URL can be used to link to this page

Home My WebLink About1973 07-02 Police Moonlighting Declines as Pay Rises DISPATCH PoJjce Moonlighting . ,,. ig13 g .., e By DIANA MARDIS has n�prohibite t h e i r education, since Some of the men endhn vs Staff Writer outside work, but he will the department pays 40 w o r k e a g , caused salaries decrease have in if call hemen thinks their outside up cents to per 180 credits.e credit "One sites c directing construction r ic, usd ahalf of the staff is at- and at store openings, moonlighting by police- jobs conflict with police tending the .Inver Hills Schaller said. Jobs not men ia partsa s the St. work. State Junior College for requiring p o 1 i c-e uni Paul area,' a survey of In 1967 and 1968, there � the associate of arts de- forms have i n c 1 u d e d revealed.� with a of extra nine police departments were severalpolicemengree in law e n f o r c e- theater a n d janitorial variety Police officials in St. jobs, Oszman said. Some ment,"he said. work, minor repair work Paul, Cottage Grove, drove school buses and The Maplewood police for a contractor, and P Stillwater,1 S Maplewo d saleswork one and another a other departmentl itomits 20 hours p a rice t working e nthe t ofanparts aue- uto Pau 1 and p maximum per week, ac- dealer,Schaller.added. said the number of joff i-obs was l m p 1 district.o y e d by a cordin to hief Richard Moonlighting has de- coss holding second betweenjeschool170h W. Schaller, who esti- creased over the five- 19685 d r o p 1972p e d inga oo 1970, however, mated that 10 of 35 year period partially be- period and s during a moonlighting Ming decreasedondmembers of the force cause many of the men I►criod that some eels- with the corresponding ries increased as much increase in salaries. "It have outside jobs. Icurrently one half olf as 59 per cent. wasn't worth moonlight- "Men have to.get per- the force) goto scIn Roseville, however, ing," Oszman said, "be- mission to take on extra Schy aller aid The tighter sala- moonlighting was de- cause the increase in jobs, S c h a 1 1 e r said, ob crereaase alsoare scribed as having in- salaries have been a big "but once they're given • creased. Little change help in eliminating it." permission, they're notac ors. s a surplus of was noted in West St. He added that more men required to tell us of the employeshe now u the job Paul. are marrying w o m e n j o b's termination.. : Schaller said. in Robert Oszman, chief with good jobs, . which Schaller said.'he has re- "Butmarwhen there's more of the Cottage Grove helps cut down on the fused a few men if their job availability, there's f o r c e, said there is necessity for o u t s i d e positions may put them m o r ee moonlighting,"' "very little" moonlight- jobs. in a compromising situa- mh r erad ing in his department 0 s z m a n also men- tioHecited insurance halve. years ago, men except for police-related tinned that his men are adjustingas an exam- were"Five to hold work. Oszman said he encouraged . to further' pie. Declines As . Pay Rises ` more than their police work, like guard duty or lice Chief Richard Ro- job," according to Still- traffic direction in con- wan. "It's allowed be- cies, and othersv work at .water Police Chief Wal- struction work," as long cause of low salaries." or St. Paul Center lace Abrahamson. He as the men give Jensen a Rowan added that if or the Minneapolis-St.n - added. that some of the 1 e t t e r describing the moonlighting is elimi- Paul International Air men did labor work, t y p e of moonlighting n a t e d, then attending truck driving, and furni- they plan to do. Jensen Asa with othert police ltore moving. said that if he doesn't s c h o o1 after hours departments, St. Paul "Now most. of the men said a if hazardous b should also be cut out. policemen have to tell stick strictly to the po- and a man is injuredonSaying that "a well- the departmentewhered 1 i c e department," he his extrajob, he won't trained police officer is they will be working and said. "One man a vol- his o pay he from in high demand," Rowan they can't work. in any unteer fireman on his the police department. described ome of the job that would conflict off-duty days." moonlighting jobs on his with their own police y' Jensen attributed the force. Some men work work,Rowan said. Abrahamson said that decrease in moonlight- as security men in local the men need perm's- ing to "the lack of job hospitals, some have sion'to work outside the availability. If the sala- formed security agen- department, and their r i e s were $2,000 a extra jobs shouldn't in- month, there would still terfere with their police be moonlighting. We as work. human beings are "There are very few greedy. The s a l a r i e s moonlighters on t h e would have to be really South St. Paul force — - fantastic t o eliminate three or four out of 32 moonlighting," Jensen men," said Chief Arne said. Jensen. "One drives a He added that some of truck parttime, one or the moonlighting is nec- two investigate for in- essary for men with surance companies, and large families. one is in guard work." • "We have moonlight- The force d o e s n 't ing, but we don't encour- "frown on police-related age it," said St. Paul Po-